The president's strategy begins with the recognition that America is at war. Protecting the American people remains the first duty of the president of the United States. The president's strategy renews his commitment to maintain an American military without fear, that can dissuade, deter and defeat a wide variety of potential threats. |
The purpose of the summit is for the democratically elected leaders to get together and reaffirm the fact that there is really a shared vision for the hemisphere that is based on democracy and free markets and free trade. |
The relationship with China is extremely complex. We have areas of very positive cooperation with China. |
The reporting we have is that the demonstrations and the violence associated with the cartoons has subsided. The president has made clear in a couple statements how he sees that whole issue. And I think it's very clear that he wants to go and that his Pakistani hosts want him to come. And therefore, we're going. |
The spread of democracy will make the Middle East a safer neighborhood for Israel. An American retreat from Iraq, on the other hand, would only strengthen the terrorists who seek the enslavement of Iraq and the eventual destruction of Israel. |
The stop in the Slovak Republic is a nice opportunity for the president to remind Europe and the rest of the world of the progress we've made together in that part of the world, |
The terror threatens all of us. You had seen terror attacks in Britain, in Spain, in Italy, in Turkey, in Russia, in Egypt, in Jordan, in Saudi Arabia. This is a threat, really, to the civilized world. We need to cooperate together to deal with this terror threat that threatens all of us. We are cooperating with a number of countries. |
The two countries are working together on a range of global issues, including counter terrorism, nonproliferation, energy and the environment, and the expansion of economic and political freedom. |
The violence seems to be diminishing. |
The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence . . . is not in their interests. |
There are more serious leaders who are outstanding and not in custody than the three you described and I am sure that a number of those will not be part of the reconciliation process but again that is a decision that the Afghan government has the lead on, |
There are questions raised in the Congress, and what this delay allows is for those questions to be addressed on the Hill. There's nothing to reopen. |
There was a meeting in Washington on that date. I did attend a meeting with him. |
There's an issue of finalizing the relevant agreement and then signing it. The framework basically allows access to facilities so as to facilitate cooperation between the forces of the United States and Romania, |
There's limited time on these things. |